Chapter 34 Danger in Swallow City
Yunzhou is located in the west of Yanyun, the gateway from Xijing to Nanjing, it is less than 100 miles away from Youzhou, and it can be reached in half a day by light ride. Therefore, Wu Song instructed Yelu Wolf Smoke to let him lead five thousand iron horsemen to rush to Baguan first, Baguan is the only barrier in Yunzhou, relying on the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, the city wall is deep, the ditch is deep and ravine, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be called the Juyong Pass of Yunzhou.
Wu Song led the infantry to walk behind, and if nothing else, he could reach the Baguan in the middle of the night.
In this way, two thousand palace tent troops and three thousand Yelu Dashi's infantry followed behind Wu Song and hurriedly marched forward.
At the front of the long line, a delicate carriage was speeding away, and next to it, it was escorted by the coach Wu Song, no one was surprised, just because in the car was Yelu Dashi's daughter, Yelu Baixue.
Wu Song also learned from some Northern Liao generals, such as Yeluliang, that she is not only a tiger girl, but also has a title among the Northern Liao people, "Hu Yan'er Duo", which means the most beautiful and strongest flower in the grassland.
Because she rode in a carriage every time she accompanied the army, and the walls of the carriage were embroidered with wolf flowers, the Liao people could easily identify her.
From Youzhou to Yunzhou, along the way, they have to pass through Xin, Wei Erzhou, and the news that Wu Song led the army to crusade against Yelu Yu has also spread throughout Yanyun, but along the way, everyone's cheers for "Hu Yan'er Duo" are significantly higher than that of Wu Song, the boss, which makes Wu Song shake his head slightly and smile bitterly, and at the same time, he also has a little more respect for Yelu Baixue.
But along the way, Yelu Baixue never spoke to Wu Song, and even when she paused to rest, her face was cold, and she didn't even look at Wu Song. If you want to put it aside, Wu Song will definitely stalk him, and let his righteous sister be angry, ashamed, or aggrieved, in short, he is not allowed to ignore him, what is emotion, crying and laughing are called feelings.
But at this time he was very perverse, his brow was deeply furrowed, his right hand was straddled on the hilt of the sword, he rode on his horse, and followed the carriage slowly, and also did not say a word.
Although he was worried about the current military situation, he had not yet reached the point of worry, and he was worried about what Emperor Tianxi said to him before leaving.
"General Yelu, I have already told Dashi about this, but your stepfather seems to have been furious." When he whispered this to Wu Song, Wu Song glanced at Yelu Dashi, and his face was gloomy and terrifying.
For some reason, Wu Song remembered Yelu Dashi's disappointed eyes, and felt uncomfortable for no reason.
By the side of the carriage, he slowly closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, allowing his energy to focus on this big battle.
Ignoring Wu Song's troubles for the time being, Baishuibo, more than 300 miles away from Swallow City, the water of the two rivers of Baishui and Qushui is all injected into this berth, and the berth water is clear, but at this time, the calm berth water is not calm at all.
Countless military tents, war horses, patrol soldiers, dotted with the wide ground next to the white water anchorage, the soldiers are strong, the horses are strong, it is really a strong force.
In the center of the many tents, a well-guarded, magnificent royal tent is particularly conspicuous. At this time, the door cloth of the camp tent was opened, and a sergeant walked in, and after the sergeant entered the camp tent, he immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to a man in front of him.
The man had a pair of diamond-shaped triangular eyes, he was middle-aged, but his eyes were as sharp as a young man, he was dressed in silver helmet and bright armor, and his gestures were domineering, but the corners of his eyes were a little gloomy.
When he saw the sergeant enter the tent, he asked coldly, "How is it, what does he say?" ”
"Back to the general, he said that he had to listen to him in this matter, because ...... Because he said that although you are the commander, he is the overseer, and he represents the power of Du Bo. ”
After the sergeant finished speaking, he didn't hear a response for a long time, and he couldn't help but panic, but he lowered his head, and couldn't see the general's face, and he was a little stunned in his heart...... He didn't dare to think about it, so he could only kneel on the ground and pray silently.
After a while, the man said, "I know, you go down." ”
The sergeant finally breathed a sigh of relief and bowed and left the tent, wiping his forehead, already in a cold sweat.
The sergeant left the camp, and the man's calm face finally showed ruthlessness, and he said word by word, "After Yan Wu begged to buy, and after Yan Agu was killed, are you going to cross the river and tear down the bridge?" Okay, don't blame me for being unrighteous if you're unkind, I can betray Da Liao, and do I care about betraying one more Jin man? ”
He even called the names of two generations of Dajin Emperors. It seems that he has a lot of resentment against the former, so the man is none other than the rebel general of the Liao State and the commander of the attack on Yunzhou this time.
To tell the truth, since Wanyan Agu was killed, he has not been comfortable at all, first of all, his fief is much less, he can only search for Yelu Yanxi in the area of Jiashan, and it is more than 108,000 miles away from Wujing of Liao State and Huining Mansion of Jin State, this is not to prevent him from what.
Finally got out of Jiashan, Wanyan Wu begged to buy him to send troops to Yunzhou, but another supervising army appeared, Wanyan Qing, divided the 6,000 cavalry in his hands, and fought against Yunzhou with him.
Before leaving the army, his relatives were also detained in the army of Jiashan Jinren, of course, this is also the meaning of Wanyan Wu begging.
Along the way, Wan Yanqing had a lot of awkwardness with him, just now for when to enter Swallow City, the two had a disagreement, and they argued endlessly, until they broke up unhappily.
Yelu Yujian can also be regarded as a person who can endure, although Wanyan Wu begs to buy suspicious of him, but after all, he has not done too much, and now that the situation of the Jin people is very good, he will not be stupid to make a bird. So he sent a sergeant to ask Yan Qing with kind words just now, but he was oppressed by the other party's imperial power.
Therefore, when Rao is Yelu Yu saw his good temper, he could not help but scold and say such a rebellious word, but he calmed down again, and he slowly breathed a sigh of relief, called a sergeant outside the camp tent, gave a few orders, and asked him to rush to another king's tent.
It was not long before the water boiled, the men put on their armor, immediately saddled, and the tents were all put away, and the soldiers' eyes showed greedy desire, because at last there was going to be a war, and war meant to them the spoils of war, women, money, where all these things came from, robbed.
10,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry finally opened, and they slowly moved westward, which was the first barrier in Yunzhou, the direction of Swallow City.
As night fell, the 2,000 palace tent troops and 3,000 infantry led by Wu Song finally arrived in Yunzhou and joined the 5,000 cavalry led by Yelu Langyan. Before the two sides could say a few words of greetings, an urgent report came from the side of Swallow City, and the 16,000 soldiers and horses led by Yelu Yu had approached Swallow City, and it was estimated that the troops would come to the city early tomorrow morning.
The defender of Yanzi City was naturally anxious, and sent sergeants to Yunzhou in a hurry to ask for reinforcements.
From Yelu Baixue, Wu Song learned that Swallow City was just a small city outside Baguan, and the wall bricks used to build the wall were all made of local materials, and all the mud bricks were used, so the city wall was seriously damaged, and there were only 2,000 defenders in the city, which could not resist the army outside the city at all.
When the sergeant of Swallow City came to report the news, Wu Song was leading a few people to explore the Baguan Pass, and sure enough, as Yelu Baixue said, the city defense was strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are also Liao people such as Yelu Wolf Smoke and Yelu Liang by his side, in order not to let people see the flaws, Wu Song asked Lin Chong and Shi to stay in the army temporarily.
When the news of the danger of Swallow City reached everyone's ears, everyone exploded, and Yelu Liang worried, "Swallow City is the eyes and ears of the overlord, if the Jin people attack this city and lose their eyes and ears, then they will lose the initiative, Yelu is in control, and they must immediately increase their troops, and they must keep Swallow City." ”
This statement was recognized by everyone, and Yelu Wolf Yan said even more fiercely, "Young General, I ask Starry Night to send troops, use five thousand iron cavalry of my lone wolf legion, and go out of the Ba Pass first, to Swallow City, and beat Yelu Yu by surprise, and then the young general will bring the infantry to Swallow City." ”
"No" Wu Song and Yelu Baixue actually said this sentence at the same time, Wu Song's face was calm, but Yelu Baixue's face was eager.
The two glanced at each other, Wu Song smiled kindly, but Yelu Baixue glared at him, and said to himself, "Brother Yelu, I know that you are still worried about the battle of Hubu Dagang a few years ago, and you want to defeat the Jin army to prove the prestige of the Liao people's iron cavalry, but this time the Jin people have 10,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry, if you rush to send troops, you will definitely fall into a bitter battle, do you want the lone wolf army that your father worked so hard to cultivate to be destroyed in your hands?" ”
The last sentence surprised Yelu Wolf, he was indeed revengeful, and he forgot to think about the way back for a while, and was reminded by Yelu Baixue before he came to his senses and hurriedly thanked her.
Wu Song didn't expect Yelu Wolf Smoke to have this experience, saying that in the battle of Hubu Dagang, the Liao people were really defeated, when the Liao army of 700,000 and the Jin people 20,000 confronted, the Jin people were indeed in a disadvantageous situation at the beginning, no matter how good the Jin people's combat effectiveness was, it was only 20,000 people after all.
But the Liao State is unlucky, their commander is Emperor Tianzuo, Yelu Yanxi, at this critical moment, there is a rebellion in the capital, and some people want to abolish the emperor and stand on his own, it stands to reason that whatever he does, 700,000 troops are in his hands, what else is there to fear, it is not too late to destroy Yan Agu and then go back to rebel.
But this is not Yelu Yanxi's character, he likes to throw watermelons and pick sesame seeds, and he likes to be unexpected, at the critical moment when the two armies were facing each other, he took tens of thousands of horses and horses, and actually returned to Beijing to quell the rebellion.
Obediently, this can make Wanyan Agu play badly, it is estimated that he was eager to kiss Yelu Yanxi at that time, why are you so cute.
As a result, the 20,000-strong army of the Jin people directly attacked the Liao Chinese army, and the Chinese army could not resist and retreated, and then the left wing of the Jin people attacked the right wing of the Liao people, and the Liao soldiers could not stop it, and they retreated completely.
Hundreds of thousands of Liao people were chased and beaten by 20,000 gold soldiers, this picture is unimaginable. Since then, the Liao country has been in a slump, losing Tokyo, Shangjing, Zhongjing, Xijing four major towns, and the territory has been lost nine out of ten.